1960 Figure 8 - Sun Valley Speedway

Second video taken of color at Sun Valley Speedway (Anderson Speedway). Original owner Joe Helpling pictured at the beginning promoting the Little 500 and Figure 8 Racing.

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Back in the mid and late 1960s, we'd go to Sun Valley nearly every Saturday night in the summertime. The parking lot would be thick with the smell of beer in the air. Nearly every Saturday night, there was always at least one fight in the stands at Sun Valley until beer was banned on the back stretch. Friday nights, we'd go to the Muncie Raceway, and on Sunday afternoon, we'd sometimes go to Mt Lawn. Sun Valley always had the best figure 8 races. I well remember Bob Fields, Herb Rose, Don Andrews, John Rhonemous, and Gene Huston. Some of the best memories of my youth took place there. After basketball and bowling, it seemed like Figure 8 racing was by far the most popular sport in East Central Indiana.

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My dad, Joe Slayton, is in this video at 7:55. Too cool. Mom made him retire before my memory kicks in. This is the only footage of him driving I have ever found.....

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WTF. !!!! I watched all that for the figure 8 and it gets it off. I call BS